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28.
housing,
Meanwhile, we must
continue with the task of
feeding and caring for all those who are already
well as the
here. I should like to express my appreciation for the work
of all the men and women of the Government Departments, as
voluntary agencies, who are responsible for
looking after the 54,000 Vietnamese who remain in our camps;
important financial assistance Hong Kong
and also for the
has
received from
the United Kingdom, which has totalled
over $500 million over the past two years. I hope that we
now move towards a humane solution which will bring this
tragic migration to an end.
can
3.
THE NEXT TEN YEARS
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At the start of the new decade, it is worth
reflecting on where we now stand in world terms and where we
By the standard of income per head, Hong
have come from.
In
Kong today ranks among the world's top twenty economies.
the 1950s and 1960s, this community struggled and made
sacrifices to achieve even minimal standards of health care,
shelter and social services. Now the facilities provided
by the public sector in medicine, housing, welfare and
education meet the basic
requirements of our
families.
Indeed,